Spay FIRST! advocates for a PREVENTION FIRST approach to companion animal overpopulation. Spay/neuter must be at the heart of animal control policies. Shelter overcrowding will only cease when each community has access to affordable spay neuter programs. Two billion dollars each year is spent on animal control while less than ten percent of that amount is spent on publically funded prevention-based programs…we can save money and lives. Read here about the tragic decision facing shelters each day.

Dogs and cats are born five to ten at a time and are adopted out one at a time. Those that are not adopted, and that's most of them, either suffer in homelessness or are destroyed in shelters. Do the math and you'll see, spay/neuter programs are a matter of common sense and compassion. - Judy Kishner, Board President of Spay Oklahoma